Why type when a video shows what happened. Edit- they apparently made contact with a Seaspan vessel ahead of them but there was minimal to zero damage.

[image] Hogsnort: I was a regular caller at Busan years ago and the pilot boarded a fair way into the port. Are you talking about Old Pusan or New Port? At New Port the pilot station itself is somewhere just east from the end of that first breakwater. That’s not to say the pilot came from t…

[image] Lee_Shore: So you’re saying the pilot boarded after the ship had entered the port, steaming at 8 kts and within sight of the pier? In this case not likely because the pilot boarding area further out is in well protected waters but it’s not uncommon in “breakwater ports” for the pilot …

[image] Kennebec_Captain: In small ports the pier is sometimes close. Some South African ports come to mind. But even then, this fubar is hard to explain away.

I know better than to tell the story of how I came sliding in that one time, half-fast ++, because I’ll get a lot of well you shoulda looked at the chart a little closer and not come in so fast. Yeah, well no shit. :slightly_smiling_face:

We have all been there.It’s called experience and what not to do because we have done that and won’t do it again. Most of us knew/know what happened here before the simulations were demonstrated. Some very good mariners on this site that can see through this incident. Yes, hindsight is 20-20, but t…

[image] Lee_Shore: So you’re saying the pilot boarded after the ship had entered the port, steaming at 8 kts and within sight of the pier? I have no idea of the pilots qualifications and how he got aboard this very big ship. But it seems speed was much too high and that was the fault of the M…

[image] Heiwa: What was the hurry? KC has the answer. :slightly_smiling_face:

[image] Kennebec_Captain: …I was taking the ship across the bay to the yard and the pilot got cancelled, too windy. Had to anchor. It was like trying to steer a ping pong ball… The somewhat erratic AIS-speed changes of Milano Bridge, inside the basin, let me think: Could it be that, when the…

Milano Bridge allides with gantry crane in Busan today

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Milano Bridge allides with gantry crane in Busan today

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